Today, our friend W1zzard from techPowerUp released an updated version of the popular GPU information and monitoring tool GPU-Z with a moderately significant change log.

The latest version of the utility now includes preliminary support for ATI’s upcoming Hemlock (HD 5900 series), Cedar (HD 5600 series) and Redwood (HD 5300 series). The release also fully supports the recently launched HD 5850, HD 5770 and HD 5750 and addresses a bug with default clock reading on the HD 5850.

More importantly, the release adds basic detection for many fake Nvidia GPUs in an effort to maintain validation integrity among forum communities and hwbot records. In terms of hardware specifics, the update now correctly recalculates clock changes in pixel fillrate, texel fillrate, and memory bandwidth information.

W1zzard has also added hardware detection for a broad range of Nvidia GT200-derived mobile GPUs, including the ION LE, and a couple Tesla units.

GPU-Z 0.3.6 and its full change log can be viewed and downloaded here.